Jan 22, 2016 - The WAN Show Document

[LinusTech]

 

Soundcloud Link: https://soundcloud.com/thewanshow/the-wan-show-intel-no-longer-focusing-on-pcs-dec-11-2015

 

Main News Topics

US Military Aims to Create Cyborgs by Connecting Humans to Computers

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/531594-us-military-aims-to-crea OP: Dobbsjr

Source 2: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/20/us-military-cyborg-connecti

• US military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) unveiled a research program called Neural Engineering System Design (NESD)

• hope to develop high-bandwidth, implantable neural interface to open channel between human brain and modern electronics

• not a new research topic, but most projects have been hampered by slow, limited control

• NESD manager for DARPA says “today’s best brain-computer interface systems are like two supercomputers trying to talk to each other using an old 300-baud modem”

• currently, human-computer interfaces connect to a large number of neurons at a time

  • they aim to connect to individual neurons

  • establish finer control, less noise, and speed up communication

  • will require breakthroughs in neuroscience, synthetic biology, low power electronics, photonics, medical device engineering and packaging, according to agency

 

California wants to ban encrypted smartphones

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/531889-california-wants-to-ba OP: AresKrieger

Source 2: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/yet-another-bill-seeks-to-weaken

Bill 1681 Copy

• Jim Cooper’s new bill, would “require a smartphone that is manufactured on or after Jan 1, 2017 and sold in California to be capable of being decrypted and unlocked by its manufacturer or its operating system provider.”

• rationale is to fight human trafficking, rather than terrorism

• if bill passes, it will affect modern iOS and Android devices

• enabling a full-disk encryption that neither Apple nor Google can access

• Bill 1681’s language nearly identical to bill reintroduced in New York state earlier this month

• Cooper says “Human trafficking trumps privacy, no ifs, ands, or buts about it”

• Two privacy lawyers that Ars Technica spoke to said the bill has problems

  • weakening encryption will  harm security of the internet

  • infeasible from technical perspective

  • no way to ensure that phones can be decrypted by police and not “bad guys”

  • illegal under the Dormant Commerce Clause

    • forbids states from imposing undue burdens on interstate commerce

Samsung taken to court by Dutch consumer watchdog over failing to update its phones

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/530385-samsung-ta OP: zMeul

Source 2: http://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-sued-update-phones-668328/

• Consumentenbond: non-profit looking after interests of consumers in Netherlands

• taking Samsung to court over “failure to provide updates in a timely manner”

• reached out to Samsung on Dec 2nd

• in absence of proper response they “issued injunctive relief proceedings against Samsung”

• group demands clear and unambiguous information on updates and patches

• Consumentenbond says 82% of Samsung phones it checked were not updated within two years of their introduction

• noted Samsung is the “undisputed leader” of the Dutch phone market

• they want Samsung to support every device it sells for two years, regardless of how old it is...

 

Samsung Official Statement - Samsung Benelux, Jan 20th

“At Samsung, we understand that our success depends on consumers’ trust in us, and the products and services that we provide. That is why we have made a number of commitments in recent months to better inform consumers about the status of security issues, and the measures we are taking to address those issues. Data security is a top priority and we work hard every day to ensure that the devices we sell and the information contained on those devices are is safeguarded.”

 

Apple to Widow: Want Your Dead Husband’s Password? Get a Court Order [updated]

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/531179-apple-to-widow-want-your OP: wkdpaul

Source 2: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/apple-wants-court-order-to-give-access-to

Source 3: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2498150,00.asp

• canadian widow locked in battle with Apple over dead husband’s account

• “I could get the pensions, I could get benefits, I could get all kinds of things from the federal gov’t and the other gov’t. But from Apple, I couldn’t even get a silly password” said 72-year-old Peggy Bush from BC, Canada

• lost husband to cancer August 2015

• couple owned an iPad which she used to play games on, it stopped working

• Bush’s daughter called Apple to try and get the password

• they tried for two months and failed to retrieve it

• Apple then requested a court order

• they gave up trying and went public with their story Jan 18 on CBC’s GoPublic

• Apple apologized and offered to help the family

  • as of Monday, they still don’t have the password

  • Apples T&C states: ”agree that your Account is non-transferable and that any rights to your Apple ID or Content within your Account terminate upon your death. Upon receipt of a copy of a death certificate your Account may be terminated and all Content within your Account deleted.”

Google paid Apple $1B USD to keep their search bar on iPhone

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/532401-looks-like-google-paid- OP: zMeul

Source 2: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-22/google-paid-apple-1-billion-to-

Source 3: http://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/google-paid-apple-1-bil

• Apple received $1 billion from Google in 2014 to keep the search bar

• according to transcript of court proceedings from Oracle Corp’s lawsuit against Google

• Google has agreement that gives Apple a percentage of revenue Google generates through Apple devices

  • at one time the revenue share was 34%

  • not clear which one of the companies was the 34%

  • attorney for Google tried to get judge to strike the mention from record

 

Intel is rebuilding itself on three pillars - PC isn’t one of them

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/527801-intel-is-rebuilding-it OP: Mr_Troll

Source 2: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3022972/components/intel-is-rebuilding-itsel

• future is based on the data center, internet of things, and memory

• reported net income of $3.6 billion from fourth quarter, down 1% from same period in 2014

• CEO Brian Krzanich said “[PC] business provides a foundation of IP and a source of cash flow, but it is not the sole driver of our growth”

• recently completed acquisition of Altera, programmable logic company for $16.7 billion

• CEO gave keynote at CES, sees embedded Curie processor and IOT as the future of the company

 

Rapid Fire

 

AMD’s quarterly earnings report - operating loss of $49m and net loss of $102m USD

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/530571-amds-quarterly-e OP: zMeul

Source 2: http://ir.amd.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=74093&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2130467

Source 3: http://www.maximumpc.com/amd-narrows-loss-in-q4-looks-ahead-to-polaris/

GAAP Financial Results Chart

• Dr. Lisa Su, CEO AMD - “AMD closed 2015 with solid execution fueled by the second straight quarter of double-digit percentage revenue growth in our Computing and Graphics segment and record annual semi-custom unit shipments”

• revenue $3.99 billion, down 28% year-over-year

  • primarily due to lower client processor sales

• gross margin of 27%, down 6% points year-over-year

  • due to lower unit volumes and product mix

  • Net loss of $660 million, loss per share of $.84

• operating loss reduced from $364m in Q3, 2014 to $197m in Q3, 2015

Lawsuit against Oculus and its founder, can proceed judge says

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/530989-lawsuit-against-oculus-and- OP: zMeul

Source 2: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-oculus-rift-ruling-idUSKCN0UX2IK

• part of a lawsuit can proceed against founder of Oculus VR

• US judge dismissed several claims filed by another company that alleged Oculus founder had passed off its confidential info as his own

• judge in San Francisco ruled on Saturday that a breach of contract claim could proceed against Oculus founder Palmer Luckey

• Hawaii-based Total Recall Technologies said they hired Luckey in 2011 to build a prototype head-mounted display

• Luckey signed a confidentiality agreement, according to lawsuit filed last year

• Luckey calls the lawsuit “a brazen attempt to secure for itself a stake in Oculus VR’s recent multi-billion dollar acquisition by Facebook”

 

JEDEC publishes GDDR5X Graphics Memory Standard

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/532299-jedec-publishes-g OP: zMeul

Source 2: https://www.jedec.org/standards-documents/docs/jesd232

Source 3: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160121006320/en/JEDEC-Announ

• announced Jan 21st, 2016

• targeting data rates of 10 to 14 Gb/s

• 2x increase over GDDR5

NVIDIA’s GTX 970 Most Popular Graphics Solution on Steam

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/527862-mini-news-nvidia OP: That Norweigan Guy

Source 2: http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-steam-survey/

Steam Hardware & Software Survey: Dec 2015

Steam Windows Versions Survey

• most Steam users use GTX 970

• GTX 970 ahead of HD Graphics 4000 GPU from Intel as it sees a monthly decline

• shows people shifting away from integrated graphics to dedicated graphics cards

[Andrew Storlie]

Hi linus!

[LinusTech]

Hi linus!

hi

[Bob Jim]

Linus, just curious what are your thoughts on AMD's future with zen and Polaris?

[Andrew Storlie]

hi

sorry but i have to admit actually getting a hi back from linus himself just made my day. Love what you do and the community you support. Once im out of ICU maybe ill come visit LTT HQ lol

[deathxscythe]

Hey folks was wondering if anyone had a link to the video linus was talking about during the wan show where the guy was going over how apple makes repair deliberately hard?

 

Thanks in advance

[Master-Sacker]

Hey folks was wondering if anyone had a link to the video linus was talking about during the wan show where the guy was going over how apple makes repair deliberately hard?

 

Thanks in advance

 Maybe this ?

 

[AresKrieger]

I'm not @That Norwegian Guy, @LinusTech in regards to the 970 most popular on steam thread  :lol:

[ChrisCross]

worst example for the samsung update problem is the galaxy s5. its stuck on 5.0. i mean even 2gen moto g is more up to date.

[Chairdolf_Sitler]

Intel doesn't focus on PCs, and, as latest Techquickie suggests, LTT no longer focuses on Tech

[NumLock21]

The old slot pentium 2 cpu, Intel also had them for the celeron, pentium 3 and pentium 3 xeons. Celeron, Pentium 2, and Pentium 3 runs on slot 1. Pentium 2 and 3 Xeons runs on slot 2, which supporta dual cpus. The key notch is placed at different positions so they are not compatible with each other.

AMD also had a slot cpu for its K7, which runs in slot A.

[RCPT]

 

NVIDIA’s GTX 970 Most Popular Graphics Solution on Steam

Source 1: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/527862-mini-news-nvidia OP: That Norweigan Guy

Source 2: http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-steam-survey/

Steam Hardware & Software Survey: Dec 2015

Steam Windows Versions Survey

• most Steam users use GTX 970

• GTX 970 ahead of HD Graphics 4000 GPU from Intel as it sees a monthly decline

• shows people shifting away from integrated graphics to dedicated graphics cards

 

 

 

@LinusTech Maybe the Steam success of the GTX970 it was a consequence of some recent facts:

 

- budget and first to be market as 'GeForce GTX VR Ready'

- DirectX12 support in Nvidia 900 series

- ability to use better new screens at 4K, or the newer 165 Hz thing (like you referred: https://youtu.be/b3ImK3WMBm4?t=4m46s )

- it's the latest architecture

 

Maybe the sum of all this have put her into this result, not only the usual marketing by nvidia.

[mikat]

hi

hey

 

when you talked about consumentenbond doing good stuff i was like:

YEAHHHH NETHERLANDS WOOOOO